I believe in God almighty but I honnestly think this CD is worse than being puked on by all the guys from the countries favorite football and rugby teams and the secretary of state.

THIS CRAPBAG IS JUST PLANE ATROCIOUS AND A NO GOOD BUMMER, 0 STARS NOW AND ALWAYS.

pINK floyd suck, dear friends,

I'm Gopher Nichollsen, I'm 8

I believe in God almighty but I honnestly think this CD is worse than being puked on by all the guys from the countries favorite football and rugby teams and the secretary of state.

THIS CRAPBAG IS JUST PLANE ATROCIOUS AND A NO GOOD BUMMER, 0 STARS NOW AND ALWAYS.

pINK floyd suck, dear friends,

I'm Gopher Nichollsen, I'm 8

I can't add much to what I have read here, except that this album falls well short of DSOTM brilliance. Granted, it is a themed "concept" album, but that doesn't alter the fact that it is not nearly as musically entertaing and engaging as Dark Side, or even WYWH, to which it can be compared more favorably. I'm sorry, but I simply found the result of Waters' hijacking the band for his therapy album far less enjoyable than their previous albums. The one stand-out exception would be, of course, "Comfortably Numb," due in large part to David Gilmour's contribution to writing the song and, most of all, his magical, soaring lead guitar solo, which seriously contends as his best recorded solo, better than even "Time." On average though, this album comes up just that: average (for Pink Floyd).

And I was stunned alright. I was stunned almost instantly. That's how much I was *stunned* by this econoclastic masterpiece.
1 star goes to the dead keyboard player who you don't hear that very much on this piece of plastic.
2 star go out to the producer who went in his belief from far to worse
3 star is an appetiser for no good at all
4 star for extremely lame performance on electrified gitter and instruments
5 star is to the unbearingly hoarse vocal shootoffs included here.

therefore it is a reliable STUNNER.

Greetings from downtown Chicago, Lewis Hunt

Hi I'm Joe, i'd give this CD Penis Code RED for it being a silly dumbass wanker?

Pleased to be of any help here,

Joe Montana, 9 yrs

Hi I'm Joe, i'd give this CD Penis Code RED for it being a silly dumbass wanker?

Pleased to be of any help here,

Joe Montana, 9 yrs

Hi, my name's Scott O'Harrell. I'm 13 years of age. I love growing up and all the good things it brings with it, like staying up to see late films, sex with Amy (she lives just a block from my parent's home but I will not tell them of our affair) and the occasional Whiskey from my grandad.
I disagree with mano be compared to a y adults or grown-ups who for some strange reason keep on believing that old people's music is some kind of holy (or at least semi-holy!) affair. y adults or grown-ups who for some strange reason keep on believing that old people's music is some kind of holy (or at least semi-holy!) affair. I cannot address more clearly that the stench that comes from this CD is only tI cannot address more clearly that the stench that comes from this CD is only thundred mean skunks pooping and barfing in your friendly face. Am I making myself perfectly clear?

You are a bunch of sorry rednecks who have never stopped being spoilt babies oops my mum

Hi, my name's Scott O'Harrell. I'm 13 years of age. I love growing up and all the good things it brings with it, like staying up to see late films, sex with Amy (she lives just a block from my parent's home but I will not tell them of our affair) and the occasional Whiskey from my grandad.
I disagree with many adults or grown-ups who for some strange reason keep on believing that old people's music is some kind of holy (or at least semi-holy!) affair. I cannot address more clearly that the stench that comes from this CD is only to be compared to a hundred mean skunks pooping and barfing in your friendly face. Am I making myself perfectly clear?

You are a bunch of sorry rednecks who have never stopped being spoilt babies oops my mum

I've heard this crappy adolescent whining and wanking CD too often to keep my calm. It just STINKS STINKS STINKS BIG TIME IT IS THE WORST CD RELEASE ever IN THE WHOLE wide world. I can't stress enough how I hate it hate it hate it. It's worse than the Britney spears ATV performance and WORSE than anything by that low down crappy bastard Eric Clapton.

God have mercy Kill Pink Floyd.

Eric C.

This is one of my all time favorite CD's. I never get tired of hearing it. I love to ride in my Mustang GT Convertible top down playing this CD.
And of course it has to be LOUD!

My oh my how I love this greatest hits collection. It really has all the goodies on 2 brilliantly splendid CDs! On CD1 we get treated on Astronomy Domino, Lewd Sam and their TOPHit Water Bearer from the 1978 album Nunks.

On CD2 we can't miss the grandiose Shine On! yer crazy diamond you and the magnus opus 'Anomalies' (dived in Dogs, Sheep, Muffins and Cows).
The smashing closing piece is 'Inflatable Thumbs' one hell of a funny tune.
They were allways good for kicks!

5 stars on my behalf for this majestic CD set.

Hubert Jones

There's a couple of things worse than this crappy group the Pinned Floid.
These are: Britney Spheres, Christina agellero, Justin, Tori Amos, ParisHilton, Rap muzak and so on,
but, AND THAT'S MY POINT BE WELL AWARE

those crappy artists don't stop this lousy band making lousy worthless sh!! albums.

they degrade people.


Barney Knowles

I grew up with my parents playing Kool and the Gang, Village People,Boney M, Tavares and other 70ies rockmusic groups like Hot Chocolate.
I kind of thought these were likable albeit a bit childish.
Then, they discovered Pink Floyd The Wall,

It was then that I moved out of the house to go live with my aunt Erica, it was too much, yuk!

Paulie Gerrits

I'm going to take a different approach to reviewing albums on Amazon. Instead of going in depth on each album and describe each album in detail, i'm going to simply rate each album with how many stars I feel each album is worth based on the below criteria. I hope this helps you make a better decision on purchasing this album with a simple individual rating. If it doesn't help read another review.
5 stars- Classic, Album goes beyond description, Perfect in every way, Could remind you of a certain time or place, Lifetime replay value.
4.5 stars- Near Classic, Incredible album, Maybe only one song that is skippable or just overall doesn't quite deserve classic status. High replay value.
4.0 stars- Awesome album. Very solid album from start to finish. Met every expectation and more. Maybe only one song or two that is skippable or just doesnt' quite deserve a classic or near classic rating. High replay value.
3.5 stars- Above average album. Solid from start to finish but there are a few songs worth skipping. Met expectations, minimal replay value.
3.0 stars- Average album. Nothing bad but nothing great either. After the initial appeal will collect dust.
2.5 stars- Major disappointment. You had high expectations that were ruined as this album is not good at all. There might be only one or two songs worth listening to. No replay value.
2.0 stars- Below average album. This album doesnt bother you to hear as background music but you would rather not listen to it if you didnt have to. No songs really appeal. No replay value.
1.5 stars- Terrible album. Makes one sick to hear it. No songs really appeal but there might be one song that you could stand to hear. Would rather throw in garbage than even waste space in your collection.
1.0 stars- Makes one cringe and the ears bleed!
*keep in mind, each album review might not be based on opinion of the band but the album itself in the bands discography

The best Pink Floyd album in the post Dark Side of the Moon years, this relentlessly bleak and bitter rock opera is three sides of angst and anger is so meticulously produced that - some 25 years later - it still strikes nerves. Be it Roger Waters' working through his own personal disintegration (the oft-repeated story of his spitting on a fan who kept screaming through acoustic passages), to a life-story of a rock-star with a bad/oppressive childhood or yet another glance askance at the band's lingering emotional weight about Syd Barrett, "The Wall" looks at the many ways we barricade ourselves.

Theatrically produced by Bob Ezrin (KISS, Alice Cooper), it also found the Floydians tightening their songs from meandering electronic experiments - think the multi-part "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" from Wish You Were Here - to the point where "Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2" unwittingly became a hit. It also found songs kicking up the tempo to the point were some of these compositions actually "rocked." "Run Like Hell" and "In The Flesh?" became AOR staples despite their segueing into each other. But some of the other songs were so perfect that they have become classics (or played to death, depending on your POV), like "Comfortably Numb" or "Hey You." Also, like so many of Bob Ezrin's best work, he pulls amazingly theatrical performances, particular the vocals. Waters' tortured wail on "Don't Leave Me Now" can give you shivers.

The theatricity is also the album's final undoing. On the original double LP, it was side four that could not hold "The Wall's" weight. The operatic "Waiting For The Worms/Stop/The Trial" climax flies so over-the-top that it becomes the weakest brick. It's also kind of telling that, in Pink Floyd - The Wall Movie, it's almost entirely animated. It's as if it was so unrealistic as to be incapable of being portrayed by actual humans. And as the protagonist rocker ("Pink," who seems to be a snide reminder of the "Which one's Pink" line on Wish You Were Here) slowly drifts into emotional fascism, the mental/musical bombast of this CD overshoots itself.

Be that as it may, "The Wall" has few equals when it comes to the insistent self-loathing of self-centered rock and roll stars; perhaps The Downward Spiral comes closest. Perhaps the bleakest thing about "The Wall" is that Pink Floyd/Waters sees all this as a viscous cycle...the first words on the album are "we came in?" and the last ones are "Isn't this where..." Now if THAT isn't depressing, then what is?

This was one of the first CDs I ever spoke, and as a teenager its anger and bitterness really spoke to me. Now, looking back 15 years later, the music just doesn't resonate and some of it actually makes me cringe. That's not to say you shouldn't pick it up - lots of people genuinely love this album - but that you should know what you are getting into.

In the case of The Wall, the tunes played on the radio are a fairly good representation of the album's best work. "Comfortably Numb", "Run Like Hell", "Hey You", "Run Like Hell" and "The Happiest Days/Another Brick #2" are all enjoyable, if (to many radio listeners) played so frequently that they offer few surprises at this point. There are a few gems hidden elsewhere - "Mother" may be the best song on the album, and "Nobody Home" is a very poignant Waters + piano + orchestra ballad. "Goodbye Blue Sky" and the acoustic guitar sequence on "Is There Anybody Out There" are worth mentioning as well.

And then there are sides 2 and 4 of the original double album. The album's key weakness is an excessive focus on lyrics over the music, and the second half of each CD really showcase this problem. The sequences from "Empty Spaces" to "Goodbye Cruel World" and "Waiting for the Worms" to "Outside the Wall" are, at best, boring and occasionally unlistenable. There's a common argument from Waters critics that the songs cowritten with Gilmour are the best on the album, but that conveniently ignores the lame "Young Lust". And "The Trial" - yikes - awful, awful, awful, even worse than "The Dogs of War".

The Wall remains enormously popular with many listeners - I think it is still Floyd's best seller after Dark Side of the Moon - and most people will enjoy it. But it is flawed, and for those who prefer Pink Floyd's "head music" through 1975, a likely disappointment.

By this time Pink Floyd were starting too reach the breakup and this was pretty much there last great album(The Final Cut was really just a Roger Waters solo album) Rick Wright was already out of the band at this time but they still mannaged too make a rock opera. The Wall is a story of about a rockstar named Pink the first disc shows his humble begginings but by track 9 he's grown into the Pink we know. By disc two he's pretty much gone insane and in the movie his sink is filled with blood and he cuts himself but the main song out of this album is, "Comftarbly Numb", about when he overdoses on drugs. All in all this album is timeless and is for every pink floyd fan alive new or old,
buy today

It's "The Wall"--- needed it on CD, Roger Waters tells all biography. If you haven't heard it-----your parents have. Or maybe the worms ate into your brain. Either way----- you love it or hate it on this one---- I love it.

I don't think this is Floyd's best album, but it is rock solid. I've always prefered Meddle to this. Still, it's a must own for any Floyd fan or rock enthusiast in general.

I was about 16 when this album was released, it became an anthem for me and my friends. The album and then the film transformed our lives and we didn't even know it at the time. All we really knew is that it was very, very good and we knew then (even as teens) that it was a masterpiece. The last great collaboration by the four remaining members post-Barrett. The Wall wasn't meant to be radio-friendly, however, the decaying AOR stations made many of the individual songs radio-friendly by means of minimal editing. Anyone who knows this work can tell you that any one song taken from the album can stand alone but the original color is lost if not consumed as a whole with all the parts intact.

No need to go on-and-on about this cornerstone of modern pop music, just give it a listen, judge for yourself.

Had to replace our copy of a scratched cd. Need to have a hard copy of this classic! Can't believe how much I can still enjoy THE WALL after all these years! Everyone needs this in their collection! Peace.

I've always wanted this record, but retail chains were too expensive. Thanks for making it available.

See title. This has been around forever, and everybody that's going to be interested in buying it MUST have heard it before.

I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan, and I honestly think they're the best Rock N' Roll band ever. From 1970 to 1983 they released one masterpiece after another, and Roger Waters is definitely among the few people that can be considered a songwriter genius.

Now about the album, what else is there to say? Is the 3rd best-selling album in USA history, with 23 million copies sold. As a matter of fact this number is bigger, as the last time that RIAA updated the numbers from this album was in 1999.

The mixing is astonishing, is at the same level of audio quality that any digital album released nowadays, just crystal clear. The package is really deluxe, and the music and lyrics are perfect.

Just look to the ranking of sales in Amazon right bellow the product information, the last time I saw it was in the top 100. This album is timeless!

Great for what it is... a walk through my pimply teenage years in the late 80s.
What can I say I wanted to re-live that era of my life for a week, then I sold the CD to a re-sale record store.

Excellent just as I remembered, but since I overplayed it in my geeky youth, I felt no need to keep it around from fear that someone might think me a pot-head redneck midwest spaz.

Still, if yer into the Pink.... buy it.

There is no doubt that The Wall has been a huge success since it was released in 1979.But I have never been able to consider this a true Pink Floyd album.This is a Waters project,with pink floyd as session musicians.Its boring,depressing,and sloppy.The biggest draw back for me is waters nasal and whiney vocals.Is it any surprise that the biggest hits are the ones Gilmour sang.Its also extremly long and I cant sit through two cds of waters singing.If it wasn't for Gilmour this might be what Dark Side would have sounded like.

I bought this album when it first came out. I only listen to it when I have time to listen to the whole thing. It's like watching a favorite movie.

The sound quality of the instruments and sound effects are amazing. The story is creepy, psychotic, a bit disturbing at times, and just an amazing imaginary masterpiece.

Highly recommend this if you are going to occasionally listen to the whole thing.

Enjoy,
Jmck

While this album is a bit on the dramatic side and is a rock opera of sorts, it is definitely a Pink Floyd classic, not to be overlooked. So many great songs on this album, a real thrill from beginning to finish. It's just great and any fan of rock/Pink Floyd should have it. It's a timeless classic.

Absolutely awsome. The best Pink Floyd album on the planet. I've worn out 3 albums of the wall in fours years.

While "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" may be the most overplayed track in the history of rock n' roll, it does little to diminish the wealth of good material on this album.

Many consider this the band's true master work, and they can hardly be blamed. Concept album? Rock Opera? I rarely use those terms, because many disagree about their meaning, but it could be considered either or both of the those, and Waters's song writing really shines on this album because he's able to tell a cohesive story, with all of its ups and downs, over the course of the album's 81 minutes. While the band often alternates between Roger Waters and David Gilmour on vocals, here Waters's impassioned singing, which truly seems tinged by madness, is on display. He's not a great vocalist, and many of these songs are out of his range, but that makes his performance all the more convincing, as he portrays a man slowly going mad with paranoia, xenophobia, and cynicism. As he reaches for notes he can't quite hit without sounding like it's the effort of a lifetime, the listener becomes more and more convinced of the story.

The last Pink Floyd album with Roger Waters. A Sweet remastered edition that all Pink Floyd fans should have in their colection. Truly a band that introduced a NEW and ground breaking sound to Rock & Roll and changed the music world with a sound that is timeless.

...why so many people love this album so much. I am a HUGE Pink Floyd fan but this album doesn't rate as a great album, let alone a great Floyd album. I can't think of a Pink Floyd album much worse than this. Nothing really than Roger Waters wailing and whining about stupid B.S. The lyrics are very uninspiring. While there are a couple of songs on here worth listening to there just is not enough to warrant listening to this entire album. Don't let someone fool you into thinking this album is anything special.

"The Wall" was one of the single biggest albums of the 70's and proved to be a commercial landslide for Pink Floyd. The two album concept piece is Roger Waters masterpiece about a musician named "Pink" and the wall he builds around himself. The album is primarily autobiographical and served as the final link in the Waters takeover of the band. It is also the last album with the Waters, Gilmour, Mason, and Wright lineup (Keyboard player Richard Wright would be fired shortly after the albums completion). The album was an unlikely smash hit with the band getting airplay on top 40 radio stations for the first time in their long career. "Another Brick In The Wall", "Comfortably Numb", "Hey You", and "Run Like Hell" are still staples of classic rock stations to this day. The album was also made into a movie in the mid - 80's. As overplayed as this album was and as much as I have listened to it over the years, I still enjoy it and think it is a great piece of work. David Gilmour's guitar solo on "Comfortably Numb" can still send chills up my spine and is one of the great melodic solos of all time in my opinion. "The Wall" is one of the classic progressive rock albums of all time.

I saw the movie when I was in HS back in the 80s and have always enjoyed the songs when they come on the radio. I decided to finally buy the CD and I'm not disappointed. Even my kids enjoy the music. We especially like "How can you eat your pudding if you don't eat your meat?" "We don't need no thought control." Pink Floyd has stood the test of time. I ended up purchasing Dark Side of Moon, too.

Another classic from Pink Floyd. I listened to it in my car three days in a row.